III.  URBAN AND PUBLIC SERVICES

1. Assumptions

   Urban services need not be thought of in terms of something that the resident plugs into. Imagination should be employed in the residents' attitude toward service, and the City should employ the same as regards providing services.

2. Neighborhood Goals

   1. To provide convenient and necessary educational and recreational facilities.

   2. To seek the establishment of ribbon parks with bicycle paths either by donation or through joint acquisition by the neighborhood and the City.

   3. To make full and creative use of right-of-way lands.

   4. To encourage power, telephone, and other cable companies to install all new services underground. To pursue opportunities that would enable the neighborhood to put current cable services underground.

   5. To place effective, attractive, and practical screening between the Valley and Interstate 5. The sights and sounds of heavy interstate traffic must be reduced drastically.

3. Proposals

   1. All new construction in newly developing areas should install underground services. Established areas should be encouraged and aided in doing so.

   2. The neighborhood desires help in requesting conservation easements and aid in establishing ribbon parks and trails to ring the Valley on the east, south, and west, and as a method to preserve the natural store of trees along the slope and ridgelines.

   3. Right-of-way maintenance should be provided for footpaths and natural drainage channels, and channel banks should be closed to construction. Areas under transmission lines and over gas lines might be maintained for non-motorized recreational use.

   4. The neighborhood requests that the area along the river at the Valley's northern edge be left in a natural state since it serves a valuable recreation purpose. Development within the Willamette Greenway will be required to meet Willamette Greenway standards.

   5. The neighborhood association has actively pursued a noise control study with the Department of Environmental Quality and Environmental Section of the State Highway Department. The objective is to achieve a noise and visual barrier between Interstate 5 and the Valley. The study has involved noise measurements, resident questionnaires, reports incorporating weather, wind, meteorological, and social-psychological information contributed by Federal and University personnel. The study, and its implementation, is an involved undertaking; and the neighborhood association desires the City's guidance and assistance in coordinating its effort with other agencies.